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We’re so excited to get started with this project and this blog! Posts will be published as we visit each neighborhood; we preemptively apologize for delays. If you have any location suggestions, or would like to be part of this process, let us know! Please follow along here, on Instagram @90conesproject, and on Facebook at…
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June 28-30, 2026 As Pippa prepares to begin her junior year, we are stepping into the world of college tours. For our first venture we took a short road trip over to Ohio to check out Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College, and Kenyon College. But it wouldn’t be a Barlow trip without some ice…
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July 8, 2026 The 90 Cones Project was born one year ago today! Twelve months after brainstorming this crazy idea on the way to the orthodontist and making our first stop in Squirrel Hill North (shout out to Nana’s Scoops!), we have visited nearly 37% of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods. We’ve visited old favorites and discovered brand…
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March 30, 2026 As the only Pittsburgh neighborhood that spans a river, Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar earned not one but two visits. During Pippa and Edmund’s spring break, they took the bus across the Allegheny River to the Waterworks to see Project Hail Mary (amazing btw) and grab ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. Edmund enjoyed Our Strawberry…
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May 30, 2026 Liddy and Pippa took a long after-dinner walk to Shadyside, stopping at Mercurio’s on Walnut Street. Pippa enjoyed Death by Chocolate and Stracciatella while Liddy had Strawberry Cheesecake and Dulce de Leche. Mercurio’s holds special meaning for the Barlows: not only have Greg and Liddy been fans of their award-winning gelato for…
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May 25, 2026 Central Lawrenceville is home to a long-standing Memorial Day Parade, our family’s tradition for the start of summer. Greg and Edmund marched along with their Scouts BSA troop, and Pippa and Liddy met up with family friends Zoe and Peter. After taking in the bagpipes, Ghostbusters, and fiery tubas, we walked down…
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We are so proud of the way this project has progressed, and as we come up on its one-year anniversary and finally get around to posting the 30th neighborhood, we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has engaged with the blog. The 90 Cones Project has been an incredible experience and…
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April 12, 2026 We spent a Sunday afternoon in the South Side neighborhood of Carrick. While it is a very large neighborhood, it was not one we had spent a lot of time in. We visited Coco Wawa Hot Chicken and grabbed Nutella cones from their ice cream freezer. Carrick is an incredibly steep neighborhood,…
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This is a hard post to write. Sunday, May 17 was the final day of business for La Scola’s Italian Ice and Custard, a dessert destination so dear to us that we had once planned to make it our 90th celebratory cone. As we live very near to Highland Park, La Scola’s has long been…
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November 15, 2025 Here’s our final 90 Cones visit from 2025! (Yes, we know it’s April.) We spent a lovely November afternoon in Spring Garden, a neighborhood we were very unfamiliar with. We headed to Marshall’s, a convenience store and gas station. Google Reviews and signage suggest that Marshall’s has good Reubens, but we did…
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March 31, 2025 Point Breeze North is a small neighborhood, covering only a few blocks; however, in that small space the neighborhood holds a rich history. During the gilded age, Point Breeze North was home to George Westinghouse and H.J. Heinz, two notable business men, among other rich residents. Westinghouse’s home, named Solitude, was home…